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THIS SIDE OF 40: Life With BryM


 There's Always A Good Excuse.....
 

I'm sure that everyone out there has experienced the confusion that follows a traffic accident and tried to summarize what happened into the little blocks on the accident or insurance forms. I found the following in an old newspaper clipping that I'd saved years ago...it was quotes taken directly from the aforementioned forms....

"Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don't have."

"The other car collided with mine without giving warning of its intentions."

"I thought my window was down, but I found out it was up when I put my hand through it."

"I collided with a stationary truck coming the other way."

"A truck backed through my windshield and into my wife's face."

"A pedestrian hit me and went under my car."

"The guy was all over the road...I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him."

"I pulled away from the side of the road, glanced at my mother in law, and headed over the embankment."

"In an attempt to kill a fly, I drove into a telephone pole."

"I had been shopping for plants all day and was on my way home. As I reached the intersection, a hedge sprang up and blocked my view so that I couldn't see the other car."

"I had been driving for forty years when I fell asleep at the wheel and had an accident."

"I was on my way to the doctor's office with rear end trouble when my universal joint gave way, causing me to have an accident."

"As I approached the intersection, a stop sign appeared in a place where no stop sign had ever appeared before, so I wasn't able to stop in time."

"My car was legally parked as I backed into the other car."

"An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle, and then vanished."

"I told the police that I was not injured, but upon removing my hat, I discovered that I had a skull fracture."

"The pedestrian had no idea which way to go, so I ran over him."

"The indirect cause of this accident was a little guy in a small car with a big mouth."

"I was thrown from my car as it left the road. I was later found in a ditch by some stray cows."

"The telephone pole was approaching fast. I was attempting to swerve out of its path when it struck my front end."



In other news....
The catalog thick packet of paperwork has now officially been sent back to my new employer. I should know with in a few days when I'll get to start! Yay! I'll say this though..considering the fact that I spent $23 on UPSing that damn thing, NOTHING had better go wrong!!!

Yes, I've changed the look of my blog again...I was getting sea sick looking at that huge wave in the background! I hope everyone likes it...although I'm thinking the font needs to be a little bigger!
Posted by Bry_M at 5:03 PM - 13 Comments   Add a Comment  
 

 And the Paperwork Begins
 

So today I get a package from my new employer...it's all of the necessary forms for me to fill out and send back before I start....this package is as thick as the freakin BIBLE!!! So now I have a cramp in my poor wittle fingers from writing so much! It's ok though...I'd rather spend my time filling out a mound of paperwork than not having the opportunity at all!

I also got a knock on the door today from a rather unfortunate looking woman. She was wearing a bright yellow moo moo dress, a huge floppy straw hat, and flip flops. Her mission? To collect data for the 2010 Census. Oh brother. I didn't mind so much answering her questions, but then she got a little carried away and began to tell me that her neighbor had shot & killed her dog, a man chased her off his property with a baseball bat, a vicious dog chased her down the street, and the only reason why she was doing this job was because the man who was supposed to fix her air conditioner had ripped her off. Oh, and her car's a/c was broken as well. Needless to say, I ended up having to very politely excuse myself after her 30 minute tyrade about her life!

So that's my day....how was YOURS?
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 Officially Official
 

Well, it's officially official! I got the offer today...I'll receive my packet in the mail tomorrow with all of the paperwork, releases, etc. I should be able to start by late next week or the week after! Needless to say, I've been doing cartwheels all day....which has proven to be sort of difficult behind the customer service desk!!

I do have a funny story to share....I'm standing at the counter this morning minding my own business when this creature walks up and asks me if we have any more "mini kegs"....now, the question itself wasn't nearly as disturbing as the person who asked it. I'll post a picture in this entry to demonstrate what I mean...I was rather frightened by what I saw. Now, don't get me wrong...to each his own, but my personal feeling is that if you're a man, you're a man. If you're a woman, you're a woman. The parts are not interchangeable for a reason. Clearly this man was in the process of becoming a woman, and not doing a very good job of it.


Now, while this isn't an actual picture of the person I encountered today, it may as well be. They're equally as scary! Anyway, come to find out, this person was inquiring about a small cooler that our store carries, and I pointed...him...her...she..he..IT to where the display was. I then crumpled to the floor in laughter.

In other news....
I'm disturbed by the fact that I've been tagged 25% redneck. I think what did me in was the fact that I actually DO know someone who's been on Jerry Springer...this crazy bitch I worked with at American Airlines a few years back was on there to confront her husband who as it turned out, was a drug addicted drag queen who was having an affair with a much younger man. Of course, afterwards, this same crazy bitch went on Divorce Court (for obvious reasons) and then ended up on the Jenny Jones Show, accused of kidnapping her own granddaughter.




You Are 25% Redneck



The wheels still turning, but the hamster's dead.

You're just fakin' bein' a redneck, so your Southern card is hereby revoked!



I wonder if I can ever get my card back?

That's all for now!
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 And now...the News...with BryM
 

Two very significant things happened today...first of all, it's not OFFICIAL in the official capacity, but I got a voice mail from the company that I interviewed for....the lady who left the message said that it's good news...SO...it looks like

I GOT THE JOB!!!!! WOO HOO!!!! Of course I didn't get the message until after business hours, so I won't be able to find out the specifics of it until tomorrow, but I'm SOOOOO glad that at least she said it's good news!!!!!! I don't think I've been THIS excited in a long time!!!!! To all of you who have sat for all this time with your fingers, toes, and eyes crossed for me...THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU....I think it's safe to uncross them now!

In other news.....

This morning, bright and early, I got up and started the legwork of the bogus phone service charges. You all are going to just LOVE this one....first of all, I ended up being transferred a total of FOUR times before I actually got to the bottom of the situation....it turns out that at some point and time my social security number and name were used to set up this service....IN 1998. Yes folks...this so called "BILL" was almost TEN years old. The first thing that I did was tell the rather smart ass man on the other end of the conversation that I've never had phone service with this company and I've never lived in the area that the exchange covers. This is where it got really good....he called me a liar. Yes, he did. He told me that apparently I was just someone who wanted to "get out" of paying a legitimate bill.

That's when the fireworks exploded.

I'm the kind of guy that usually keeps his cool, but when I am pushed to my limit, that's it. I proceeded to machine gun this man with everything that I had...I was literally exhausted by the time I got done with him. I can't remember the last time that I went off like that on someone...and if it weren't for the fact that this man worked for one of those 'scavenger' type collection agencies, I'd almost have felt sorry for him. Those type of collection agencies are the ones who will 'buy' outdated bills from other companies and employ whatever tactics they can (legal or not) to collect. Given that the bill wasn't even MINE in the first place, though, I was in no mood to play the game with him. Let's just say that by the time the conversation finally ended, he was made aware of the fact that even IF the bill WERE mine that he'd never be able to collect anything on it in the first place. He also has the fear of God in him now that I'm going to show up at his office and pull his nose out through his ass.

So...all in all, it was a rather nice day for a change!
Posted by Bry_M at 8:31 PM - 11 Comments   Add a Comment  
 
 'Mornin'
 

Ok so I found this over on HeatherScot's blog and I thought it would be pretty cool to find out what rating my life gets:




Your Life is Rated R



Your life is definitely adults only. While children accompanied by parents are welcome, they'll probably be scarred for life.



So tell me...is ANYONE surprised?

I'll be back this evening!
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